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Among the layoffs were scientists supported by the fees who monitor whether tests pick up ever-evolving pathogens, including those that cause bird flu and Covid. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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donvict acts like a child in 2018. Now, he wants to whitewash history. The last time Canada was the Group of 7 chair, during Mr. Trump’s first term in 2018, the president walked out of a summit meeting in Quebec and withdrew his support for the final joint communiqué, angry about its language...

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No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

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The United States has no need to “partner” with Russia economically. But President Trump wants to partner with Putin’s Russia morally and politically—against Ukraine, and against liberal democracy.

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If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousands of dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country,” Mr. Vance said, “then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.

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They treat an unprecedented threat to human freedom as if it were just another policy challenge to be debated at leisure.

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Consider how many educated, thoughtful people respond when you warn them about the marriage of artificial intelligence with autocratic power. They acknowledge the concern intellectually, maybe even express worry about it, but then return to their daily routines as if nothing fundamental has changed.

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Shen Yun is the reason for the bomb threat. They are a blight on the world of decency. Stop their performances in the US. Wonder if they are too woke for donvict?

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From the deliberate bombing of civilian infrastructure to mass executions in places like Bucha to the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, the evidence of war crimes is overwhelming. And we are negotiating with them.

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It is a striking turn for Republicans, who for decades defined themselves as the party of a strong defense and argued that the United States had a pivotal role to play as a beacon of freedom and defender of democracies around the globe.

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“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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It’s hard to say which is worse, Trump’s moral depravity or his stupidity, but both have been on vivid display in the past ten days vis-à-vis Ukraine.

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Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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donvict is cuddling up to Putin without Zelensky at the table. WTF? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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donvict just posted all over the internet “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law” “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal,” Nixon claimed.

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The separation of the executive branch and the legislative branch of our Government is gone. This article confirms the president threatened a senator who could have stopped Hegseth appointment. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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When have you ever seen LGB as defining the LGBT+ community? The US National Park Service just removed the T and the word Trans from the site!! www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

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Amid the chaos of a Trump presidency, the Constitution must be our bedrock. Congress holds the power of the purse and that bills to raise revenue must begin in the House. The executive branch is not empowered to decide these things, and the courts must uphold the plain text of our founding document.

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Wow.

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Trump and Musk refuse to reveal any tangible proof of fraud they’ve claimed to uncover. This makes them look like the complete and utter failures they are. Some Good News In A World Of Trump's Mayhem www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/some-good-...

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Rep. Lee (UT) said on the social media platform X that his goal was to ban pride flags. But Nazi and Confederate flags, he told the committee Thursday, would be included in the approved flags. “There are instances...You may have a Nazi flag...You may have a Confederate flag."

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Soviet Operative & Dr. Death Confirmed. Why could go wrong?

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Less than a minute long. Sums up why I am a Democrat.

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I cannot recall reading a book as relevant to our current US situation. While technically science fiction, it is closer to ongoing events than it should be. A future colonization of Mars (for some) included! www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

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Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is declining faster than at any time in human history, according to a landmark global scientific assessment. The National Nature Assessment was intended to provide a much more robust picture of the state of play for the United States, the authors said.

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Who works at DOGE? Our new tracker: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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Anyone else see arial images reminiscent of WWII within? Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Members of the Department of Government Efficiency which is staffed with engineers as young as 19, have clashed with senior staffers at the Office of Personnel Management as they try to gain access. One young DOGE worker reportedly screamed at senior developers and called them “idiots”.

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Indivisible pushing Dem senators to use every means at their disposal to grind things to a halt while the Musk coup is ongoing. indivisible.org/resource/tel...

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To save themselves, the tech-oligarchs must attack the very notion of universality hence their abandonment of liberal universalism for racism, nationalism, masculine domination. They are attacking first and foremost the State and the Bureaucracy, the civil servants:

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Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

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Joyce Vance's Civil Discourse today gave me hope. Great responses from civil servants who received pink slips. Subscribe to her free newsletter. joycevance.substack.com/p/how-to-pus...

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Sent link to David French's Newsletter. He wrote: "...Trump REPEALED Executive Order 11246, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating “against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.”

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Recommend David French Newsletter. You may subscribe here. www.nytimes.com/newsletters/...

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Trump’s new executive order...forces federal prisons and state prisons that receive federal funding to house inmates based on a myopic understanding of sex assigned at birth.

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Review your state's record. Write your lawmakers if they don't support, do not spend a cent if you drive through. While it is difficult enough to live in the US through maggots, my heart goes out to you if you need to live there.

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Want to show support for Bishop Budde? • Email support for her pastoral message to [email protected] • Donate to the National Cathedral w/a note of gratitude for her public action at the prayer service • Send a note of support to her presiding bishop Sean Rowe at denominational hq

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Read what this elected official from one of the wealthiest districts of GA said. Perfect maga material.

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